Liget Budapest receives award as Europe’s leading touristic development! – PHOTOS

The Liget Budapest Project, a 10-year project to upgrade Budapest City Park, has won the title of Europe’s Leading Tourism Development Project 2023 at the World Travel Awards, the project leader said on Monday.

The World Travel Awards is one of the most prestigious awards in travel, tourism and hospitality, which elects its winners from thousands of world-class developments every year, Benedek Gyorgyevics, the head of the company responsible for the project, said.

The upgrade of City Park aimed “to put the venue on the must-see list of foreigners visiting Budapest,” Gyorgyevics said. Rising visitor numbers at the House of Music Hungary, the Museum of Ethnography and BalloonFly, a hot-air balloon inspired by a painting of Hungarian artist Pál Szinyei Merse, show that the park is now “on the map of international tourism again”, he said. The long-term goal is to make City Park a destination that is “worthy of recurring visits in and of itself”, he said.